The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

Chapter 59

"Mommy! That's Rapunzel!" Rosic squealed once she noticed her favorite princess. Quickly, she ran towards her,

making Julian andlaugh.

"How did you manage to make her love Rapunzel as much as you love her!" Julian asked as the two of us

followed our Rapunzel-obsessed daughter.

"| don't know. She loved Rapunzel more than I've ever loved her," | replied, taking

my phone out to take pictures of how Rosie was hugging Rapunzel. She stayed in her arms for a long tand

since Disneyland set a rule to never pull back from the hug before the child, the girl who was dressed as

Rapunzel had no other choice but to keep holding her. Even when | tried to pull Rosie away, the girl assured me

that it was fine.

"You used to look like her a lot," Julian said and 1 smiled as | remembered how much he loved my blonde hair. |

remembered wanting to cut it after it reached my waist, but when Julian beggednot to do it, | ended up

trimming it.

The first thing | did when | went to New Jersey was cut my hair to my shoulders and dye it black, because |

wanted to get rid of everything that Julian had ever loved me. Lately, | had been thinking of going blonde again,

but I didn't want to take that step now, because | kn

We had been in Disneyland for three hours and to say that Rosie was happy would be an understatement. She

was overjoyed and excited. She wanted to go on as many rides as possible and Julian ended up buying her a

bunch of Disney merchandise that could be enou Julian and | had the means to give Rosie

a luxurious lifestyle and 1 didn't mind pampering her, but | didn't want to raise a brat, so | did my best to

"balance between spoiling her and teaching her to give back. | didn't want to raise a Fiona in this world. | wanted

my daughter to appreciate everything she had and to ahrays give to those who were in need.

After Rosie took a bunch of pictures with Rapunzel, we took her to see the "Magic Happens" parade. While head,

I had Minnie Mouse ears on.

"| still can't get over how cute you look with them," Julian Laughed, and | stuck my tongue out at him.

Rosie had Rapunzel's tiara over

her

He took his phone and snapped a picture of me. | walked over to him and took my phone out to take a couple of

selfies of us together. He then picked Rosle up and | took more pictures of us.

We looked so happy together and | found myself wondering if it would be wise ofto give Julian another

chance. | would be lying if | said that | didn't have feelings for him because I did, but | was petrified and also

didn't want to hurt him. What if | gave him another chance and failed to look past what happened before? That

wouldn't be fair to him. He had suffered enough and 1 would never want to add salt to his curs.

Julian took Rosie andhafter a very long day at Disneyland. Rosie fell asleep on our way back home. She

was exhausted, but | knew that she

had the best day ever. She was going to remember that day for as long as she could.

"I'm going to carry her inside and you can carry the things we bought," Julian said and | agreed.

| closed the door behind us as we walked inside my house. Julian went straight to Rosie's room and 1 followed

him.

| watched as he carefully placed her in her bed, then kissed her forehead and pulled her blanket on top of her. |

placed the shopping bags aside and quietly, the two of us exited her room. Thank y you so much for this

amazing day." | told him, smiling,

"I'm glad you had fun," he said. | had a feeling that he had a lot on his mind and | wanted to know what was

troubling him, but | didn't know how to

ask him.

The doorbell rang and | frowned. Who would visitnow?

"Are you expecting anyone?" | shook my head at Julian's question.

We both headed downstairs and | looked through the peephole to see who was outside. | sighed and rested my

head on the door for a second upon seeing Matt's face. What the hell was he doing here! "Who is it?" Julian

wondered,

"Man," | replied before opening the door.

When Matt saw Julian behind me, his face changed. "Is that why you broke up with

me? For him he angrily spat. Immediately, | felt Julian's hand around my wrist as he gently pulledaway from

Matt. "Rosie's situation was nothing but an excuse! You leftfor him! I should have known that you were going

to run back to him!" "Don't raise your voice at her?" Julian snapped at him, showing how protective he still was

over me

"Oh really?" Matt chuckled. "And what am | allowed to do, Juliant Accuse her of cheating onand divorcing her

without giving her a chance to explain herself?" Why did people have to drow that at his face!

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"Matt, you need to go,"

," | said, taking a step towards him.

"Don't you have sdignity! Why did you run back to him? Why did you leavefor him!" Matt was angry,

but I could also sense pain in his

voice.

"| didn't break up with you because of Julian. You know quite well what you did!" | hissed. "What you did is

unforgivable and I'm not going to be with a man my daughter is uncomfortable around!" And it was true. | asked

Rosie how she felt around Matt and she toldthat "Stop playing that card!" he yelled, and | unintentionally

flinched. I hated loud voices.

"If you don't leave now, I'm going to call the police," Julian threatened him as he pulledbeside him again.

"Whatever was between the two of you is over. Accept it!"

"You're going to regret this!" He pointed his index finger atas he spoke. "He has you wrapped around his

fingers. | don't know what kind of Stockholm Syndryou're in, but | know that he's going to break your heart"

Matt slammed the door behind him and again, | flin Julian instantly locked the door, then turned to face me. He

placed his hands on my upper arms and asked, "Are you okay? Did he do that before?"

"I'm... I'm okay and no, he didn't do that before," | replied, taking a shaky breath. To be honest, | was a bit scared

and | was glad that Julian was with

me...

"Chere," Julian whispered, closing the gap between us. | let him holdand found myself wrapping my

arms around him. Matt scaredtonight and | needed the sense of comfort Julian providedwith.

| felt Julian rub my back gently and | closed my eyes, trying to relax my tensed body. Why was Julian's touch

soothing? Why did | find comfort with him? Something kept tellingthat Julian wasn't going to hurtlike

that again and | so wanted to believe that voice. "Do you nevermind," | mumbled as we pulled away.

"No, tell me," he insisted, reaching for my hand

"Do you think you can stay the night?" | hesitantly asked, not looking at him. "I don't want to be on my own

tonight."

"I will stay. If that's what you want, I'll stay," he quickly replied and | breathed out in relief. | wanted him to hold